Since the shoes has had the original color stripped, it would reqiure a lot of dark brown cream and elbow grease to get these shoes any other color. It would be like putting dark brown polish on a tan pair of shoes, and while the color would stick, it would eventually wear off. Polish itself doesn't impart much color unless you were to do many, many, many (times 20) layers.If you really wanted to get these back to dark brown, I would probably strip the color back (using a...

The shoes were purchased for the sole intention of changing its color. These got a dose of nail polish remover to strip the original color, but some areas became lighter than others.
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The shoes were purchased for the sole intention of changing its color. It received numerous coats of shoe polish and wax only, and no bleach or nail polish remover whatsoever.
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Shoes were probably worn 3 times or so, but did not fit anywhere my shoe rotation.
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These were my brown captoe staples for a year and a half, and have been worn roughly 50 times.
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These were my black captoe staples for a year and a half, and have been worn roughly 50 times.
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Originally Posted by ctp120
Or maybe we're just late to the party:
http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=77009
Well shoot, learn something new everyday. I'm going to try out this Berluti/surgeon's knot.